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[perfectible]

Easier said than done. [ Especially given what Jughead said to her. She's going to be beating herself up.]

[occultatum]

I'll make you some tea.

It'll warm you up. And help you sleep.

[perfectible]

It's not some kind of psychedelic tea, right?

[occultatum]

The day I make you hallucinate will be because you ask me to.

[Which is not to say that he won't give her something calming, but it's pretty benign.]

[perfectible]

[ She looks at him.] You can actually do that? With a spell?

[occultatum]

Hallucinations? That's easy.

[perfectible]

I guess that makes sense.

[occultatum]

Does it?

[He shrugs a little, but smiles.]

The first curses we learn are hallucinatory.

[perfectible]

Considering it sounds like you guys live a fairly hedonistic lifestyle...

[occultatum]

Is that judgement?

[He starts to laugh a little.]

Yeah. Maybe.

[perfectible]

Not at all, [ she shakes her head. It's more like envy, to be that free and unrestricted.]

Maybe I'm even a little jealous.

[occultatum]

Jealous of what?

You can be just as hedonistic as we are. There's nothing stopping you.

[perfectible]

Years of being conditioned not to be that way is stopping me.

[occultatum]

Betty-

[He laughs.]

What do you want to do right now? More than anything?

tw - self harm

[perfectible]

Besides go home? I want to go back and get my boyfriend. I want to scream. [ She looks down.] I want to hurt myself because it feels like too much.

[occultatum]

[He doesn't seem particularly bothered at this exact moment by the notion of I want to hurt myself.. Instead he takes her hand.]

Scream.

Scream.

[perfectible]

[ She balks at his suggestion.] Here? Now?

[occultatum]

Yeah.

What's going to happen if you do?

People will look? Someone will see you?

[perfectible]

[ She gives him one last look of protest before she exhales and well, she just screams.

She gets about half of it out before she covers her mouth. ]

[occultatum]

[He catches her wrist.]

Mean it.

[perfectible]

[ She gives him a frustrated look before she relents, letting her arm fall down. And she does it again, screaming again, anxious and agonized and when the sound stops, a tear slips down her cheek.]

[occultatum]

[He waits a moment, and then he reaches for her, to hug her, and hold her close.]

Okay.

[perfectible]

[ She doesn't resist him, she lets him pull her in close and she buries her face against his shoulder for a moment.] I guess I needed that.

[occultatum]

Yeah, I know.

[He says it gently, and he rubs her back, gently. This isn't sexual at all. This is absolutely just sweet.]

[perfectible]

[ She shudders in his arms twice before she nods.] I'm okay.